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Kant’s puppy offers clean perception into Borges’s preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identification that endures. through constructing the implicit good judgment of the Borgesian archive, that is ordinarilly figured because the common call for for and helpful impossibility of translation, Kant’s puppy is ready to spell out Borges’s responses to the philosophical difficulties that almost all involved him, these of the structure of time, eternity, and id; the decision of unique and duplicate; the legitimacy of authority; event; the character of language and the potential for a choice; and the identify of God. Kant’s puppy deals unique interpretations of a number of of Borges’s top identified and most crucial tales and of the works of key figures within the background of philosophy, together with Aristotle, Saint Paul, Maimonides, Hume, Locke, Kant, Heidegger, and Derrida. This research outlines Borges’s curious dating to literature and philosophy and, via a reconsideration of the relation among necessity and twist of fate, opens the query of the structure of philosophy and literature. The afterword develops the good judgment of translation towards the key on the center of each tradition with a purpose to posit a Borgesian problem to anthropology and cultural studies.

“Johnson focuses now not on Borges’s makes use of of his philosophical references, yet on how Borges will be introduced into classical debates in philosophy, on time, identification, God, etc. His corpus of philosophers is novel within the context of Borges studies—we get Aristotle right here greater than Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Maimonides and Averroes, Hegel and Kant, Agamben and Derrida. The impression is salutary: he indicates how Borges’s proposal takes up, and participates in, a few outdated (and a few new) philosophical debates.” — Daniel Balderston, Director, Borges middle, collage of Pittsburgh, and editor of Variaciones Borges

“Kant’s puppy is a groundbreaking paintings that fills a lasting gap in Borges scholarship. Johnson fantastically brings jointly the discourses of literature and philosophy via Borges’s paintings. He presents unique and illuminating interpretations of a few of an important texts and difficulties in Borges’s oeuvre.” — Kate Jenckes, writer of studying Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

David E. Johnson is affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature on the collage at Buffalo, kingdom collage of latest York. he's the coeditor of pondering with Borges and coauthor (with Scott Michaelsen) of Anthropology’s Wake: getting to the tip of tradition.

In August 1919, a construction of James Joyce’s Exiles was once fixed on the Munich Schauspielhaus and quick fell as a result of harsh feedback. The reception marked the start of a dynamic organization among Joyce, German-language writers, and literary critics. it really is this dating that Robert Weninger analyzes within the German Joyce.

A brand new and encyclopedic imaginative and prescient of contemporary German literary, highbrow and social historical past, completed in the course of the optic of discourse research, psychoanalysis, and semiotic idea, analyzed in a spirit of playfulness and impudent precision.

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Garcia Lorca on the fringe of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of soreness examines the differences of surrealism and surrealist theories within the Spanish context, studied during the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 1936). not like the idealist and unconscious tenets espoused by means of surrealist chief Andre Breton, which specialise in the outstanding, automated inventive approaches, and sublimated depictions of truth, Lorca s surrealist impulse follows a trajectory extra based on the theories of French intellectuals reminiscent of Georges Bataille (1897 1962), who used to be expulsed from Breton s authoritative team.

Extra resources for Kant's Dog: On Borges, Philosophy, and the Time of Translation (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

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S artre's principal philosophic work, L'Etre et le neant ( B eing and Nothingness ) , reflects this fascination . It seeks to translate or, rather, modulate into French the opaque strength of Heideggerian Germ an. Currently , the French school of psychoan alysis , under J acques Lacan , and the French school of semiotics, led by J acques Derrida , are trying to achieve in theii own tongue Heidegger's etymologi c al immersion . The poetry of Celan is shot through with Heideggerian neologisms and word­ welding.

Aesthetic insights. It imites a re\·aluation of certain as­ pects of Aristotelian and Scholastic logic and rhetoric. _her contains nor implies any ethics. Heidegger was. himself, peremptory on this point. He wholly repudiated attempts, notably by the � l arburg theologians and by cer­ tain humanist-existentialists in France, to deri\ e any ethi­ cal principles or methodologies from his works. He defined ethics such , for example. as we find them in Kant and such as we can legitimately infer them from Hegelian his­ toricism.

Thus we know, roughly at least, what is meant by the proposition that J. L . Austin was "a pro­ fessional philosopher," while Albert Camus, many of whose writings m ay be of overt philosophic content and interest, was not. My own field is that of the study of langu age, of its relations to literature on the one h and and to the history of ideas and society on the other. Two German term s , for neither of which English has an equiv­ alent, Sprachphilosoph and Kulturkritiker, more or less cover the ground .